Dakar (Senegal) - Flood Extent Maps 2009-2018 (ESA EO4SD-Urban)

For the urban and peri-urban area of Dakar, two main flood scenarios have to be considered: a. Fluvial floods b. Floods triggered by rainfall stagnation after heavy local cloudbursts Scenario a.) and b.) may occur at the same time. The shapefile includes 6 extents of floods between 2009 and 2018 based on HR optical imagery and 7 extents of floods based on visual interpretation of VHR data as available in GoogleEarth.

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author World Bank Group
author_email manuela.hirschmugl@joanneum.at
end_date 2018
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notes For the urban and peri-urban area of Dakar, two main flood scenarios have to be considered: a. Fluvial floods b. Floods triggered by rainfall stagnation after heavy local cloudbursts Scenario a.) and b.) may occur at the same time. The shapefile includes 6 extents of floods between 2009 and 2018 based on HR optical imagery and 7 extents of floods based on visual interpretation of VHR data as available in GoogleEarth.
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title Dakar (Senegal) - Flood Extent Maps 2009-2018 (ESA EO4SD-Urban)
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